Damon Lindelof

That's because in her surprising new role on HBO's dramatic series "The Leftovers, " her voice isn't heard at all, anytime soon.

In it, the Glastonbury native, whose work has included "NYPD Blue," "Judging Amy" and "Private Practice," plays a member of a sect that takes a vow of silence, wears white, lives communally, chain smokes cigarettes and provides a haunting and controversial presence for residents of a small town.

The sect — the Guilty Remnant — is created in response to the story's central calamity: The day, suddenly, three years back, when 2 percent of...

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